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Seniors contribute to mayor's appeal

 

Ettalong Senior Citizens Club has contributed $1723.50 towards the Mayor's bushfire relief fund.

The seniors club held a luncheon, a dinner dance and raffled a painting on February 24 to raise the money.

The fundraising idea came from two members, Rose Kinney and Ronald McDonald.

Mr McDonald was also the winner of the raffled painting which now hangs in the foyer of the seniors centre.

Gosford Mayor Cr Robert Bell recently visited the centre to accept the money.

"All the money and support that people have contributed goes towards making recent good management of the bushfires even better in the future, so the chances of our community being isolated like it was in 1994 is becoming less and less," he said.

"I'd really like to thank all the Seniors for all the work that has been done, because all of that work contributes so that we just get better at being able to stop the firebugs from gaining the upper hand," Cr Bell said.

Jonathan Reichard, March 5